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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 10h

So that he can keep ripping off artists and eliminating jobs.

Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 11h

They aren’t like you. They never had principles behind their professed beliefs. You are a rare creature.

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Capt Chris @capt-chris.bsky.social · 1d

I just heard that MTG has agreed that cutting Medicaid and eliminating subsidies for the ACA is a bad idea.

I’ve called my doctor and requested new meds. I am clearly hallucinating.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 11h

This is the only geopolitical development I wish my dad was still alive to see. He was from the Great Lakes, he was a Catholic, he would have been absolutely delighted with the first American Pope.

Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 11h

Single handedly trying to start a civil war.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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winnerbowzer @winnerbowzer.bsky.social · 2d

The absolute genius of Pee Wee’s Playhouse to have us “scream real loud” at the word of the day on Saturday mornings while our parents were trying to sleep in, has yet to find comparable fuckery.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 1d

They don’t care.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 2d

Didn’t Hegseth voice opinions about this recently?

Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 2d

He welcomes their hatred!

Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 2d

His eyes look scared.

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 3d

Oh not fun anymore is it.

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 3d

Listen, I feel like we need to give people clearer paths for reinventing their lives. This should be a success story. We should be giving people grace.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Speaker Johnson continues to stall the swearing in of Rep.-elect Grijalva so as to avoid having to deal with the Epstein discharge petition. Why shouldn’t Dems make support for reopening the government contingent on adding to the funding measure a provision mandating release of the Epstein files?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 3d

IDK when all this is over we may have to mess with Texas.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

Goddamn, this is great. The part at the end — you’ll know it when you see it — made me laugh so hard that I startled the dogs.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 5d

wizard frog is insane

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 4d

That’s what I think too. Whoever is pushing him on a lot of these dictatorial choices is probably telling him the public approves.

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 4d

For the life of me I can’t understand why. Successful dictators prop up the economy?

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 4d

Well done!